charliecharlie Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 to balance out Quids's long standing 'Places in London not worth a vist' I thought I would add this thread...my first offer is....The Paramount - the bar restaurant at the top of the Centerpoint building which has, until recently, been a members only club...is now open to non members... the views are amazing (food OK but you are paying for the views)... I took the photos over a 2/3 hours slot ... weather was amazingly varied and the city looked spectacular Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Long standing????Good tip tho Charlie Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliecharlie Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 yup... long standing by today's standards... he's had 147 views and 33 posts...and I have only had 2!you can crash and burn or drift on by like tumble-weed in seconds on this forum, as you well know Mr MacGabhann!glad you liked the tip though... now you do onexxCC Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 http://www.lordshiplane.co.uk/business/LLO001_EDTUpstairs.jpgThe local boozer? Always worth a trip CC. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliecharlie Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 yup sort of a bit of a been there done that (still doing that feel) was looking for some fresh ideas Mick Mac!!!!xxCCgood ol' EDT eh! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Waterloo Bridge. You can stand on it and look around and re-pledge your allegiance to London. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Eh CC - don't knock it. You are speaking to a man who is off drink for November - has not had a single drop for 25 days and can now almost smell the alcohol from Lordship lane. Forgive my one track mind. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamityKel Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Vauxhall bridge offers much more of that kind of thing but from a distance - I can't find the right words to expression such emotion! ;-)oh and it's great on a windy day :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliecharlie Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 ahhh poor old you Mick Mac... (pours large glass of red wine) hold on in there...only 5 days to goYES YES AND YES Moos... great any time of day, in any weather but best at nighthttp://www.jonathans.me.uk/pod/waterloo_bridge_night_m.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Very true, Kel - so many of the bridges are amazing. Tower Bridge on a sunny day is fabulous to cross and just watch the towers floating over your head. Richmond Bridge is good for people-watching in summer, Putney decorated by a lovely church, Millenium Bridge beautiful in itself, Albert Bridge is so pretty, Hammersmith Bridge is just bananas...For Westminster Bridge, I will of course defer to the poet.Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 The Monument. All 311 steps. My daughter had learned about the Fire of London in school and guess what, I had to take them up to the top. Scary up there but great views.Came down and my daughter asked me where Pudding Lane was - I was half way through explaining that it did not exist as it was burned down in the fire of london - when she looked past me and said - "No Daddy - there it is over there". Sure enough, big street sign "Pudding Lane". First time I have been caught out bluffing to my children. First of many I expect.http://www.londonnet.co.uk/files/images/newsimages/monument_steps_london.jpgSome american guys were standing at the bottom saying to the ticket collector - "Maaaan, I can't believe this place does NOT have an elevator......"Then they refused to go in - how sad is that? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 A trip to the temple.http://www.grogo.co.uk/Urban/slides/Neasden%20Temple.jpghttp://www.wayfaring.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/neasden_20temple.jpgWith some retail therapy afterwards...http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/221413225_5e15bbee6b.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268553 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpc Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 The view from Wolfe's statue in Greenwich Park (sorry no photo). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 How's this?http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01/36/27/1362787_f0a276f5.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliecharlie Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 oh yes the temple... sort of lost in the back of my mind... thanks for reminding me....how about the Sir John Saone museum... pretty wierd and wonderfulhttp://www.creative-freelance.org.uk/images/soane_museum1.jpg Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268559 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpc Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Ted Max Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> How's this?> Why thank you - that'll do nicely. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 How about the oldest golf club in the world (arguably). http://www.royalblackheath.com/files/rbgcmembers.co.uk/50/header_public.jpgBlackheath mention that other items in their possession suggest a date of 1745 may have been the inauguration of a collection of players into a formalised Club, but they do not give details. The idea that the first golf club could be English, and not Scottish, is not as impossible as it sounds. In Edinburgh there were plenty of golfers and arrangements for a game would have been easy to make. Blackheath is several miles outside the City of London and to get there in Stuart times would have meant significant travel arrangements, such as being ferried by waterman to Greenwich. Thus the reduced number of golfers and the geography could easily have produced more organisation sooner, but no conclusive evidence is felt to exist at present. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamityKel Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Erm... No Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Oh yeeesss.http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:dj9T6l1BC0ty3M::img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00471/SNN1833B_471637a.jpg&h=94&w=67&usg=__NP50rzRU9J5IoEiD1whx9vCoepQ=:)) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliecharlie Posted November 25, 2009 Author Share Posted November 25, 2009 http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07/22a_17_London_sky_500x265.jpgand the view from Forest Hill is pretty amazing... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Same view from Dulwich Golf Club......there's another one for KK's shortlist. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamityKel Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Shame I'm not allowed to show the view from the roof at work (special security stuff and all that) that's quite lovely especially on a nice sunny morning Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 I think someone's been drawing on your photos, Charlie. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamityKel Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Kel does NOT do golf :p Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuLu Too Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Wow - that Shard has gone up quicker than I realised.It's not clearly visible up on the heights of UDB.*Edited because my grammar and syntax are all over the place this evening* Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/8835-places-in-london-worth-a-visit/#findComment-268576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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